Boy, 12, Finds Razor In Halloween Candy, Police Investigating

“I don’t know which house I got it from, because every other house I think I got a pack of M&M’s,” Matthew Hernley told KDKA-TV.

His mother is furious.

“I have a set of 6-year-old twins and a 5-year-old and I’ve seen them open packages of M&Ms or Skittles and they just dump it right in their mouth,” Lydia Nelson, Hernley's mom, told CBS Pittsburgh.

Scottdale, Pa., police are investigating, but an officer postulated that it was a "manufacturing issue," since the package of candy did not appear to have been tampered with, according to ABC News.

“Food safety and product quality are of paramount importance to Mars. We were very disturbed to learn that a consumer had a product safety issue within our M&M’s Funsize packaging,” a spokesman for Mars Chocolate North America told ABC News in a statement.

Although the "blade-in-the-pack-of-candy" scenario has achieved the status of urban legend in the United States, it has been known to actually happen on occasion.

Mike Vega points to the area of sidewalk in Madison, Wis., Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2012, where he discovered a starving 15-year-old after she escaped from her abusive father and stepmother last week. The severely malnourished teenager had been forced to stay in an unfinished basement for years and an alarm would sound if she went upstairs, police records say. The teen told authorities she ate what she could find in the garbage and on the floor of her father and stepmother's Madison home. Sometimes she was made to eat her feces and drink her own urine, according to a police affidavit. (AP Photo/Todd Richmond)